activity
20242026
collaborators

7 papers

math.NA2026

On MAP estimates and source conditions for drift identification in SDEs

Daniel Tenbrinck, Nikolas Uesseler, Philipp Wacker +1

We consider the inverse problem of identifying the drift in an SDE from observations of its solution at distinct time points. We derive a corresponding MAP estimate, we p…

stat.ML2025

Gradient-Free Sequential Bayesian Experimental Design via Interacting Particle Systems

Robert Gruhlke, Matei Hanu, Claudia Schillings +1

We introduce a gradient-free framework for Bayesian Optimal Experimental Design (BOED) in sequential settings, aimed at complex systems where gradient information is unavailable. O…

math.ST2025

An optimal experimental design approach to sensor placement in continuous stochastic filtering

Sahani Pathiraja, Claudia Schillings, Philipp Wacker

Sequential filtering and spatial inverse problems assimilate data points distributed either temporally (in the case of filtering) or spatially (in the case of spatial inverse probl…

math.OC2025

Consensus-based optimization for closed-box adversarial attacks and a connection to evolution strategies

Tim Roith, Leon Bungert, Philipp Wacker

Consensus-based optimization (CBO) has established itself as an efficient gradient-free optimization scheme, with attractive mathematical properties, such as mean-field convergence…

math.NA2025

Perspectives on locally weighted ensemble Kalman methods

Philipp Wacker

This manuscript derives locally weighted ensemble Kalman methods from the point of view of ensemble-based function approximation. This is done by using pointwise evaluations to bui…

math.PR2025

Connections between sequential Bayesian inference and evolutionary dynamics

Sahani Pathiraja, Philipp Wacker

It has long been posited that there is a connection between the dynamical equations describing evolutionary processes in biology and sequential Bayesian learning methods. This manu…